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New VA Regs on PTSD Claims, Facts and Q&A
- New Regulations on PTSD Claims
Quick Facts:
This new rule is for Veterans of any era.
The new rule will apply to claims:
o received by...
Chairman of House Veteran’s Affairs Comm, John Hall, Applauds New PTSD Rule
Carmel, NY– Rep. John Hall (NY-19), Chairman of the House Veteran’s Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, participated in press conference today...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 595-10
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CONTRACTS: NAVY
CH2M Hill, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded a maximum amount $75,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for multimedia environmental compliance engineering...
New PTSD Rules Hailed by Veterans for Common Sense
Veterans for Common Sense Petitions VA to Improve PTSD Benefits
From CNN:
WHITFIELD: So is this good news in your view?
SULLIVAN: This is great news and...
Gays in the Military: Why Poll Troops on Ending the Ban?
By Mark Thompson
When Harry Truman wanted to integrate blacks into the U.S. military in 1948, he simply ordered it done. When the Navy wanted...
Bills would help low-income vets on VA pensions
By Rick Maze - Army Times
A Navy veteran whose VA pension was canceled because he received an insurance settlement after he and his service...
Navy Weighs Ship’s Design, Along With Its Own Future
By NATHAN HODGE
WASHINGTON—This summer, the Navy expects to choose between two competing designs for the Littoral Combat Ship, a fast, shore-hugging warship that will...
Marine Killed at VA Hospital in Maine Called Generous, Considerate Man
- Friends recall life of former Marine killed at Togus -
By Nick Sambides Jr.
BDN Staff
An ailing Grindstone man and former U.S. Marine fatally shot by...
Stop Stage-Managing the War on Terror
Ensnaring terrorists demands creativity
by Stephan Salisbury
The Liberty City Seven, the Fort Dix Six, the Detroit Ummah Conspiracy, the Newburgh Four – each has had...
Civil Rights Groups Welcome Federal Lawsuit Challenging Arizona Anti-Immigration Law
By Avril Lighty
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday to invalidate the controversial Arizona immigration law that gives local police the authority...
Henry Waxman’s Stand on Veterans’ Land for Homeless and Care in West LA Draws...
By Robert Rosebrock
'Joe the Homeless Veteran' is camping outside the largest VA medical center in the nation in West Los Angeles, the West Los Angeles...
No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists Inside the Armed Forces
By Matthew Harwood, t r u t h o u t | Report
In his fight against British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi described the life cycle of...
Regional Veterans News 7/12/10
Regional Veterans News 7/12/10
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from:
North Branch, Michigan - Free golf for servicemen...
GORDON DUFF: VIETNAM, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN
SO MUCH MORE THAN THE BLOWHARDS, KERRY, McCAIN AND NORTH
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I got back from Arizona a bit ago, visiting with...
A Voice From The Cyber Space
By Marivel Guzman in Opinion Maker
What does it takes to write the truth? Regular Ordinary Citizens now days are engaged in the writing process...
USAID Seeks US Military Veterans for Fulfilling Careers
This is USAID
By Randy Miller
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a...
Software Solutions Giant EPICOR joins HireVeterans.com
EPICOR Reaches Out To US Military Veterans
By Randy Miller
Epicor Software is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality...
Why Agencies Like the SEC and Minerals Management Service Get Things So Wrong
Incredible stupidity. Allegiance to industry.
By James Kwak in the Baseline Scenario
There has been a lot of criticism of regulatory agencies in the past couple...
The Robin Sage Experiment: Fake Profile Fooled Military Intelligence, IT Security Pros
An experiment that called for creating a fake social networking personality managed to snare even seasoned security veterans
By the end of the 28-day experiment,...
The scars of silence for female veterans
From The Spokesman-Review:
Some female veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are having trouble adjusting to civilian life because of the trauma they experienced...
Postal Service Gets Break, Union Officials Get Paid, And Workers Get the Shaft –...
"We also found that union representatives received excessive payments from grievance settlements. Union representatives in four districts (Colorado/Wyoming, Alabama, Mid-America, and Capital) were involved with the allocation of class-action grievance settlements for six grievances that resulted in union representatives receiving payments that were significantly more than other members of the class. Specifically, union representatives received $33,447 (or 24 percent) of $141,639 in settlements for these six grievances. One union representative in the Mid-America District received as much as 35 percent of a grievance settlement, while other payees received less than 1 percent.
W.W. Williams Seeks Veterans To Fulfill Jobs
Founded in 1912 in Columbus, Ohio, The W.W. Williams Company is a family-owned corporation that now has 28 locations in 10 states. They are one of the nation’s largest industrial distribution, repair and service companies and our products and expertise extend across a wide variety of industries and customer categories. They represent, service and remanufacture some of the world’s most advanced and innovative diesel engine, automatic transmission, power generation, transport refrigeration and automotive parts on the market today.
President Obama: Fixing VA and Providing More Help for Veterans with PTSD
The first thing one needs to do to fix something is see that it's broken. I have never seen a president acknowledge what President Obama...
GORDON DUFF: CLASSIFIED CIA TRANSCRIPT COUNTERS BIN LADEN TERROR ROLE
DOUBT THROWN ON PROOF BIN LADEN A TERRORIST LEADER
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Two weeks ago, CIA Director Leon Panetta told the press the...
Google Street View accused of U.S. Congress ‘snooping’
By Maggie Shiels of the BBC
- "We think the Google Wi-Spy effort is one of the biggest wire tapping scandals in US history," John...
The Faces of the Slaughter at Sea
From Gaza Friends, see the faces of the Massacre on the Mediterranean at Free Gaza.
- The terrorists on board that ship as well as the...
White House: How Affordable Care Act Helps Veterans
From the White House:
How Affordable Care Act Helps Veterans
By Darienne M. Page
The health care debate featured no shortage of rumors designed to misinform the...
Obama: More post-traumatic stress help for vets
- No longer will veterans have to prove what caused their illness. Instead, they would have to show that the conditions surrounding the time...
Corrupt Judges on Top Vets’ Court Get Great Disability Benefits, Full Pension after 15...
Here's an outrage. The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) knocks down our veterans' disability claims constantly in violation of federal law. But these...
Cautious Optimism Meets New VA Rule to Help Veterans with PTSD
By Aaron Glantz (Bay Citizen / New America Media)
San Francisco, California - When Walter Williams came home from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in...
Gates: New media restrictions not meant to curtail coverage
By Nancy A. Youssef and Maggie Bridgeman, McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that a new policy requiring military commanders...
The Worst Supreme Court Decision of the Term
- Unfortunately, although the Bush Administration litigated the Humanitarian Law Project case up through the courts, the final Supreme Court judgment belongs to President...
Video and Audio – Mel Gibson’s New RACIST RANT: N-Word Rape Threats
From the Huffington Post:
Mel Gibson has reportedly exploded in another racially charged tirade, this time throwing around the N-word at his ex, Oksana Grigorieva.
Video...
Methodists vote to boycott Israel
The Methodist Church moves for peace against Israeli terror state.
By Marcus Dysch and Simon Rocker
The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, led condemnation of the Methodist...
Work for Peace, Violate the Patriot Act and Face 15 Years in Prison
Christian Zionists fund Israeli terrorism through tax-exempt contributions, but our First and Fifth Amendment rights can disappear under the Patriot Act if we work for peace against Israeli terrorism, the Supreme Court ruled six-to-three in last month's Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project case upholding the USA Patriot Act's defintion of “material support” for “foreign terrorist organizations.”
Top Veterans Court rejects veterans’ disability claims unfairly, Louisiana advocate says
The word is out. The only things keeping the corrupt Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims(CAVC) ruling in accordance at times with the law...
“Fit But Unsuitable”: Shameless and Shameful
By Col. Steve Strobridge, USAF-Ret, Director of Government Relations for the Military Officers Association (MOAA)
Children’s sayings about “sticks and stones” notwithstanding, words can...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 592-10
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CONTRACTS: ARMY
L-3 Communications Westwood Corp., Tulsa, Okla., was awarded on July 7 a $175,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract. This three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is for...
The Kanjorski Surprise – Financial Reform Gets Interesting
- Federal regulators have the power to limit the activities or even break up big banks if they pose a “grave risk” to the...
NFL Misses Field Goal on Mexico
Clearly and for reasons unknown, the NFL has decided that England is the market they want and Mexico is NOT. Why? This makes no cents.
The Adoration of Bibi Netanyahu
The adoration of Israeli leaders must end for U.S. national security to begin. The next few weeks will determine whether we have a fool or a leader as commander-in-chief.
The Revival of the Legacy of Ahmad Shah Abdali, Afghanistan’s “Father of the Nation”
By Hanan Habibzai STAFF WRITER
This was the first time ever in my life that I attended a gathering organized to celebrate the birth anniversary...